Installing the water heater

 

James came up yesterday and today to mow and help me once I was ready to put the water heater in.

This is the opening I created, 23 1/2 inches and the water heater is 22 inches in diameter.

This is the ramp I built from some foam blocks and 2x6s so we wouldn't have to lift the water heater into the hole.

The new water heater weighs 196 pounds and James moves it with no problem.  It took both Vera and I to move the old one which I believe is lighter.

We are talking strategy before we move it over to the opening

This is when we realized it wouldn't fit the way we were trying to do it.

 I had to trim a piece of foam insulation so we could get it in.  It also had to be turned as it went in.  When it finally went in I was inside the closet trying pry it up and not having any luck.  James picked it up and set it over the lip of the drain pan and it went right in.

Thanks to James we got it installed.